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Left-hander Andrew McKirahan and right-hander Jarred Cosart ran into some Palm Beach County royalty at dinner Friday night. The two Marlins’ pitchers happened upon tennis star Serena Williams at a local restaurant. Williams, who formerly resided in Palm Beach Gardens with older sister and fellow tennis great Venus Williams, according to Variety Magazine last year paid $4.125 million for a 2.4-acre property in the Bear’s Club section of Jupiter. Among her neighbors: Michael Jordan and golfer Ernie Els. “It was pretty wild,” McKirahan said. “We were sitting there and one of the guys that worked at the restaurant was like, ‘Yeah, she said you could come...

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